Bummer: Black Rock Quits Net Zero Asset Managers

Black Rock was one of the big-wigs in the climate cult for financial firms. Maybe they just got tired of limiting their financial returns and placating the doomsday cult?

BlackRock quits climate change group in latest green climbdown

BlackRock has become the latest financial firm to bail out of a big climate change industry group in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as US president and heightened regulatory scrutiny.

The world’s largest money manager told institutional clients in a letter on Thursday that it had quit Net Zero Asset Managers, a voluntary global group that describes itself as committed to “the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner”.

Membership in NZAM had “caused confusion regarding BlackRock’s practices and subjected us to legal inquiries from various public officials”, vice-chair Philipp Hildebrand wrote, according to a copy of the letter seen by the Financial Times.

All six of the largest US banks, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, have quit a similar group for banks, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, in recent weeks.

This next part is great

“This pullout actually just shows what they said in 2020 and 2021 was just performative and marketing,” said Tracey Lewis, head of climate policy at Public Citizen, a progressive advocacy group. “Today, the truth is coming out as all these companies are trying to appease the incoming administration.”

Yes, it was. The head honchos may have bought into the cult to look good the wackos, but, things change, and they seemingly have had enough of trying to go along with the Cult of Climastrology. How much time and money did Black Rock piss away in trying to patronize the cult?

Read: Bummer: Black Rock Quits Net Zero Asset Managers »

Senator Cornyn Introduces Nationwide Concealed Carry Bill

This would be great. If I’m traveling up I95 I have to stop and lock up my gun before I cross the Maryland border, and cannot carry concealed in NJ. Or Pennsylvania or NY if I go there. Or anywhere up north. Or, if I want to go west. I took a course on CCW and got a license

EXCLUSIVE: John Cornyn Introduces Bill Allowing Concealed Carry Permits To Work In All 50 States

Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill Thursday to allow concealed carry license holders to carry their guns in any state.

The bill, titled the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, will compel states to recognize concealed carry permits from all states as a valid certification to carry a concealed firearm, according to the bill text. A similar bill was proposed in the House in 2023 by Republican North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson with widespread Republican support, with a Republican majority in both chambers only bolstering the law’s likelihood to pass.

President-elect Donald Trump has also voiced support for the law on the campaign trail.

“The Lone Star State has long championed our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and gun owners in Texas and across the country should not have that fundamental right violated when they cross state lines,” Cornyn said in statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This legislation would reduce unnecessary burdens for law-abiding citizens and allow them to carry a concealed firearm in every state that permits it, and I’m grateful for the overwhelming support from my fellow Republican colleagues on this commonsense bill.”

In reality, the vast majority of states would honor my NC permit, except for California, Oregon, NY, PA, Colorado, Maryland, NJ, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Michigan, Colorado, and Illinois. A big thing would be to understand the laws of the other states, but, since both of my guns have 10 round mags (though the 9mm also has a 12 round mag) I’d be fine. The question becomes with a law like Cornyn’s, should there be some sort of nationalized standard for concealed carry in terms of where one can carry? How about standardized licensing? Do we want los federales setting those standards? Might it be better than each individual state setting a standard, at least in terms of traveling outside of a state? Or, should we just leave it to each individual state?

Anyhow, it will pass the House. However, the chance of getting enough Democrats to vote to overcome a filibuster is low.

Critics of concealed carry reciprocity have said that the law would force states to potentially allow carry from gun owners who aren’t qualified to carry in their states, as well as problems with states affirming the authenticity of out-of-state permits, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.

“With the tragic rate of gun violence today, I simply cannot support efforts to further weaken our nation’s gun laws,” Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said according to Politico when Hudson proposed concealed carry reciprocity in 2017. “That includes renewed efforts this Congress to relax the standards for issuing concealed carry permits or to establish a national system that would further erode state-level concealed carry standards.”

So, this comes back to perhaps requiring people to pass a CCW class in order to carry outside the home state. When NC was looking to pass Constitutional Carry residents would not be eligible to carry in other states. They would have to pass a class. Perhaps Cornyn’s law could require passing a class?

Read: Senator Cornyn Introduces Nationwide Concealed Carry Bill »

Oregon To Be Doomed 5 Degree Warming By 2074

Who gets fired and loses all credibility when this doesn’t happen? Of course, no one is going to remember this prognostication 50 years from now

Oregon climate report predicts 5-degree warming by 2074, increased drought and less snow

A new report on how climate change is impacting the state of Oregon was released today. The report is released every 2 years and it focuses on shifts in temperature and weather patterns over the Pacific Northwest.

The report found that Oregon’s average annual temperature increased by 2.2 degrees over the last century.

It also indicates the state could become 5 degrees warmer by 2074.

This report found that besides warming, Oregon is prone to more drought and less snow due to a changing climate.

“Could.” In other words, this is all scaremongering. BTW, how does this compare to previous Holocene warm periods? And, even if it does happens, can this be 100% proven to be the fault of Mankind, versus just normal Holocene warming?

“Some recent research that I’ve been involved with, led by scientists at OSU, looked into freezing rain with climate change, such as ice storms. The finding there is that in most parts of western Oregon, warming will reduce the amount of freezing rain and reduce ice storms,” said Paul Loikith, with Portland State University.

That would be a good thing, right? Ice storms suck.

Warming Great Lakes could lead to stronger snow storms, climate scientists say

Sarah Bauer woke up to a shaking house.

She thought maybe an earthquake had struck near her home in Torrance, a village in Ontario’s cottage country.

But when she looked outside, she saw a massive tree had collapsed onto her driveway under the weight of rapidly accumulating snowfall, taking down a power line with it. (snip)

Yet something new is happening. Climate scientists and meteorologists say climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is helping create conditions that can strengthen the storms.

It’s always something with this cult.

FYI, I have, at this time, no intention of going down the path of global boiling and the California fires. I’ve done it many times, and the cultists are just being too cult with the tragedy, which I bet was caused by people starting the fires.

Read: Oregon To Be Doomed 5 Degree Warming By 2074 »

If All You See…

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused soda causing terrible Bad Weather heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on the British parliament voting against an inquiry into rape/grooming gangs.

Read: If All You See… »

Canadian Leaders Say Trump Talking About The 51st State Is No Longer Funny

Did most of them find it funny to start with? Most of the leftists had freakouts when Trump first made the joke. Does anyone actually think Trump would actually make Canada the 51st state? Would possibly invade? There’s zero chance that even the Republican led Congress would authorize it. Trump may possibly be serious about Greenland and even Panama, but, Canada? It’s a troll

Canadian leaders say Trump’s talk about Canada becoming the 51st state isn’t funny anymore

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that Canada should become the 51st state are no longer a joke and are meant to undermine America’s closest ally, Canada’s finance minister said Wednesday.

Dominic LeBlanc, the country’s point person for U.S-Canada relations, said Trump was smiling when he first made the comment during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in late November.

“The joke is over,” said LeBlanc. “It’s a way for him, I think, to sow confusion, to agitate people, to create chaos knowing this will never happen.”

Surprise! LeBlanc gets it.

Trump keeps floating the idea that Canada should join the United States as the 51st state, saying Tuesday he would not use military force to invade the country, which is home to more than 40 million people and is a founding NATO partner.

Instead, Trump said he would rely on “economic force” as he erroneously cast the U.S. trade deficit with Canada — a natural resource-rich nation that provides the U.S. with commodities like oil — as a subsidy.

“It’s becoming very counterproductive,” LeBlanc said, referring to Trump’s rhetoric about Canada.

Is it? Y’all are still talking about it, and, understanding the point, which is more economic equity between the U.S. and Canada

Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller also fired back, dismissing Trump’s comments as “ridiculous.”

“There is no chance of us becoming the 51st state. I think that this is beneath a president of the United States,” Miller said. “I said a few weeks ago that this whole thing was like a South Park episode.”

But, you’re still participating in the show, Marc. And maybe, especially with Trudeau gone, Canada could make the trade balances more even so tariffs would not be needed. And, perhaps you will restore all those freedoms taken away, especially during the Trudeau years.

However, if we turn Canada into a territory, they won’t get voting rights in Congress.

The thing is, she seems to get it, and is not doing this in a mean spirited way.

Read: Canadian Leaders Say Trump Talking About The 51st State Is No Longer Funny »

European Climate-weenies Say Trump Is A “Serious Blow” To Doing Something

Hey, maybe if most climate cult policies didn’t revolve around higher taxes/fees, a higher cost of living, and more government which takes away freedom, liberty, and life choices, Doing Something wouldn’t be such an issue

EU warns of ‘serious blow’ from Trump on climate change

Global efforts to address climate change will be dealt a severe blow if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump again pulls the country out of the Paris Agreement, the EU’s head of climate change policy has warned.

Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders to withdraw the United States – currently the world’s second-biggest polluter, after China – from the main global treaty on climate change, according to sources in the team.

CO2 is not a pollutant

“If that were to happen, that would be a serious blow for international climate diplomacy,” EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Reuters in an interview.

Another U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement would require other countries to “double down on climate diplomacy” in response, he said.

“There’s no alternative to make sure that, in the end, everyone chips in, because climate change is indiscriminate,” Hoekstra said of the U.N. climate talks. “This truly is a problem that the world needs to solve together.”

And? Why is this our problem? If you want to Do Something, have at it. Why must they drag everyone into their little cult? At least Scientology and other cults do not try to force Everyone Else to comply. Worry about yourselves, EU weenies. Oh, and don’t forget that your peasants are ready to revolt over your nice Fascism on ‘climate change’, among other issues.

Read: European Climate-weenies Say Trump Is A “Serious Blow” To Doing Something »

Democrats Offer BS Excuses Why They Voted Against Laken Riley Bill

Why don’t they just admit that they prioritize illegal aliens and fake asylum seekers, even if they committed crime, above American citizen. Seriously, this gaslighting is absurd and transparent to most Americans

Social posts target Democrats’ vote on migrant offenders bill. Here’s why they say they opposed it.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., reintroduced legislation Jan. 3 she said would keep dangerous immigrants out of the country — people who have committed sex crimes or domestic abuse.

On social media, critics used the occasion to deride House Democrats who first voted against the bill in September.

“There is no justification. 158 Democrats voted against deporting illegal immigrants who are convicted sex offenders,” one Jan. 5 Instagram post said. (big snip)

But Democrats and domestic violence groups who opposed the bill told PolitiFact that the law already provides for deportation of migrants convicted of sex offenses and crimes against children. And the bill’s language could have the unintended effect of harming immigrant domestic violence survivors, they warned.

“I voted against this bill for several reasons. First, it is redundant because all serious sexual and violent offenses already render someone deportable under the law,” U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., wrote in an email to PolitiFact.

Except, they aren’t really being deported. “Ibarra had been previously arrested by both federal and state officials in multiple jurisdictions. In September 2023, Ibarra was arrested in New York City and charged with “acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation.” He was arrested for crimes again after that in Georgia. And, yet, the Biden-Harris admin failed to deport him.

Current U.S. law already makes inadmissible people convicted of crimes “involving moral turpitude,” which courts generally define as crimes involving harm to people or property or fraud offenses.

And yet the Biden-Harris admin has allowed murderers, rapists, child abusers, arsonists, gang members, and members of Islamic terrorist groups into the U.S., when they are supposed to be turned away immediately.

Mace’s bill would add sex offenses and broaden the definition of domestic violence offenses in the “deportable aliens” section of the federal criminal code.

That’s a good thing, right? Or, do Democrats no longer want to protect women?

North Carolina University law professor Rick Su said aggravated felonies are already deportable offenses. Those are currently defined in the Immigration and Nationality Act — a law enacted in 1952 that governs U.S. immigration policy — to include rape, sexual abuse of a minor, all crimes of violence, child pornography and sex trafficking, Su said.

Refer back to part about the Biden-Harris admin barely deporting them, and not working particularly hard to catch them.

Another section of current law already makes domestic violence, stalking or violation of a protection order, and crimes against children deportable offenses, Su said. The law also makes “crimes involving moral turpitude” deportable offenses.

“Even if domestic violence and sex crimes were not explicitly noted as deportable offenses, they would almost certainly fall under a ‘crime involving moral turpitude,’” Su said.

Again, those laws are barely being applied. And they keep on giving excuse after excuse, ending with

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee said in a fact sheet that despite the bill’s name focusing on “illegal aliens,” the bill would “sweep in green card holders, those seeking to come to U.S. lawfully, and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and TPS (Temporary Protected Status) recipients.”

So, they do not want non-citizens who break the law to be deported. Why, is the real question. What is in it for Democrats?

Read: Democrats Offer BS Excuses Why They Voted Against Laken Riley Bill »

If All You See…

…are tire tracks from a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on Zuckerberg going full Musk.

Read: If All You See… »

Surprise: First World Turning Against Progressive Agenda

I wonder why? The Hill’s Merrill Matthews explains

Opinion – Developed economies across the globe are abandoning progressive policies

Since November, Democrats have been trying to understand how they could possibly have lost an election to the likes of Donald Trump. But it’s not just Trump and the United States. Several key elements of the progressive-liberal policy agenda are in retreat in developed economies as voters and elected officials turn to more reasonable, practical and financially sustainable policies.

Here are three key components of the progressive agenda that are now being spurned.

Open borders. Illegal immigration has roiled U.S. politics for years, but in the election it “surged to the top of the most important problem list,” according to Gallup, even as Democrats both defended the illegal immigrant surge and went to extremes to argue it wasn’t happening. But the U.S. wasn’t alone.

recent report from the Center for Migration Studies says, “The European Union (EU), as well as individual European countries, have in the last several years launched several initiatives to prevent asylum-seekers from reaching their shores.” Those candidates campaigning for immigration clampdowns gained seats in this year’s European Parliament elections.

Reuters says concerns over immigration and asylum policies were high on the list of the EU’s five biggest countries by population: “Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland — plus Sweden.” As a result, political parties pushing immigration reform made gains in several EU countries:

Matthews provides much more on the subject, but, let’s consider that immigration was actually a lower ranking issue going into the 2024 U.S. election per many polls throughout 2024. When it came to actually voting it jumped much higher, as people remembered the border being overrun and Biden shipping fake asylum seekers all over the country, especially to small towns, then saw him actually able to significantly lower border crossings with the stroke of a pen. People in sanctuary cities saw the outcome when Texas shipped huge numbers to the cities, which saw crime, filth, and 3rd world conditions emerge, all while their hard-earned tax dollars were spent on foreigners.

In Europe they are mostly dealing with fake asylum seekers from Africa and the Muslim world, with many coming from Africa also being Muslim. They refuse to assimilate and, instead, install their own cultures. They create no-go zones. They harass and assault citizens. And the governments take the side of the FASs rather than the citizens, even jailing citizens for saying and writing Mean things. So, the citizens are turning against their progressive overlords.

The green energy transition. Developed economies in Europe and the U.S. under Democratic administrations have made transitioning to clean energy more of a mandate than a goal. They have taken major steps, both politically and financially, to implement the net-zero economy — where greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere equal the amount being removed. That’s changing.

As Wall Street Journal columnist Joseph C. Strenberg writes, “2025 may be the year net zero dies. Such a development isn’t inevitable, but what was once described as ‘the climate crisis’ is morphing into the climate-crisis crisis as voters lose patience with the project and grow less shy about saying so.”

Citizens may support cleaner energy, heck, I do, but, they do not support the forced transition which is raising the cost of energy, limiting the availability of energy, raising the cost of food and goods, and seeing the removal of their rights to Big Government. And many governments are now backtracking on their Net Zero pledges, especially in Europe.

Transgender youth. The trans issue in the November election wasn’t about adults who transition — they’re old enough to make their choices and live with them — but about children, along with biological males playing in women’s sports. Most Americans oppose both, and the issue played a role in some voters’ decisions.

But Europe is also having second thoughts. Forbes reports, “Increasingly, European nations are adopting a more cautious approach to gender-affirming care among minors.” And that shift began a year before the release of the Cass Report in England, which raised several red flags about pushing gender-affirming care on minors.

Citizens realize that it is child abuse and people should be jailed for allowing, and, really, forcing children to go through drugs and surgeries, to live as the opposite sex. Most agree that if you’re an adult, do what you want. Children? No. It’s driven by parents, teachers, and other adults who are plain nuts and shouldn’t be around any children. It’s as horrible as constantly mentally and physically abusing a child.

Likewise, people are getting more vocal over the notion that trans of all ages should not be in the safe spaces and sports of real women.

Will the politicians get a clue? Will the majority of people who support the policies start getting a clue and switch their support and votes like many of their brethren did and vote against the wacko Progressive (nice Fascist) politicians who force this on the citizens regardless of their opinion?

Read: Surprise: First World Turning Against Progressive Agenda »

159 Democrats Voted Against Laken Riley Act

A bit of a follow up, forgot to hit post on this Tuesday

(Daily Caller) 159 House Democrats voted Tuesday against legislation titled the Laken Riley Act that would require federal immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants who commit theft-related crimes in the U.S and would also allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their residents because of illegal immigration. (snip)

“Laken Riley was brutally murdered by an illegal alien that President Biden and the Democrats let into this country with their open border policy. It is hard to believe after countless horrific stories like Laken’s, ANY House Democrats would vote against deporting illegal aliens who commit violent crimes against American citizens,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said in a statement.

“But 159 just did, demonstrating some Democrats have ignored the loud and clear message from voters in this election who demanded secure borders, the deportation of violent illegal aliens, and laws that put the safety and security of the American people first,” Johnson added.

These Democrats are prioritizing illegal aliens and fake asylum seekers over U.S. citizens. How many Democrat Senators will vote against it?

Ross is my Rep. You also had North Carolina reps Alma Adams and Valarie Foushee, both Democrats, voting against. Donald Davis (D) voted for the legislation. Calls and emails to Ross’ office have gone unanswered. They do not care about you.

Read: 159 Democrats Voted Against Laken Riley Act »

Pirate's Cove